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The ceremonial county of Shropshire is now split up into the administrative county of Shropshire and the unitary authority of Telford and Wrekin borough.

Shrewsbury is a large market town in the centre of the county, and has traditionally been regarded with suspicion, often hostility, by the rest of the county, particularly by the inhabitants of the very rural South West (although since the 1960s, that hostility has been diverted toward Telford).

Shrewsbury itself is a polarised town, with a very affluent district around Copthorne which contrasts sharply with the poorer suburbs of Bayston Hill, Castlefields, Ditherington and Harlescott.

Ditherington Mill: Apprentice House, c 1800 (1) Image: Front and side view of the first apprentice house for the Ditherington Mill for Marshall, Benyon and Bage at 56-59 St Michaelâs Street, Shrewsbury.

The 1808 account of Ditherington Mill refers to the employersâ âhumane and judicial attention to the health and morals of the numerous young personsâ¦.â It is not possible to provide a direct description of the working or living conditions of parish apprentices in the factory.

Nobody passing a scruffy, half-derelict industrial estate on the outskirts of Shrewsbury would imagine that one of the battered, red-brick structures is the ancestor of today's skyscrapers - the first iron-framed building in the world.

It was built in 1796 by John Marshall, a linen magnate, and his partners, the Benyon Brothers, who had good reason to dread fire in mill buildings: they had just suffered £10,000 worth of damage at a Leeds mill, of which only half was covered by insurance.

He first went on a pilgrimage to Ditherington in 1962, when its importance had only just been realised and it was still in use as a malting, and in good condition.

The buildings at Ditherington are explored in another exhibition in the Art and Architecture section of the Theme part of the website: The Ditherington Mill Industrial Site, Shrewsbury (Locality and Landscape) Sources and Further Reading Most of the information about Ditherington Mill can be obtained from Shropshire Archives.

The Location of Ditherington Mill Image: View of Ditherington Mill showing the Shropshire Canal and canal bridge in the foreground from an early 20th century photograph.

Ditherington was also on a turnpike route from Shrewsbury to Whitchurch and Market Drayton.

The Flaxmill (also locally known as the "Maltings") there is the oldest iron framed building in the world and is seen as the "grandfather of skyscraperskyscrapers ".

On 31 March 2005, it was announced that English Heritage would buy the Flaxmill, so that it could be redeveloped.

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Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, the worldâs first iron framed building and ancestor of the modern sky-scraper, has been bought by English Heritage thanks to a grant from Advantage West Midlands.

Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage, said: âDitherington Flax Mill is an outstanding building of international importance and one of the most significant monuments of the Industrial Revolution.

Ditherington Flax Mill was the first iron-framed building in the world.

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Image: Shows a photo of the Ditherington Flax Mill buildings which are in a state of disrepair, the buildings are rust coloured and the windows are boarded up

147;Ditherington Flax Mill is an outstanding building of international importance and one of the most significant monuments of the Industrial Revolution, explained Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage.

Image: Shows a fl and white photo of a street in the Ditherington Flax Mill complex, on the left there is a boarded up building and on the right is a wall where the plaster is crumbling away

English Heritage has had some recent successes, notably the spectacular acquisition of Ditherington Flax Mill, on the edge of Shrewsbury, a mouldering complex of derelict mill buildings which conceals a 1796 structure of fabulous historical importance, the first iron framed building in the world, the great-grandfather of the American skyscrapers.

He believes Ditherington's future will probably include being publicly accessible as an English Heritage store, to show off the unique interior and also regenerate the run-down post-industrial side of the city.

However, on a range of issues including the building proposals for the south-east, the myriad tall towers punching the London skyline, and the plans to regenerate the urban north by demolishing thousands of homes, English Heritage has either objected in vain, or been side-lined.